Test-driven conceptual modeling: a method and a tool

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Abstract

Conceptual Schema-Centric Development (CSCD) has been
quali ed as a grand challenge for many researchers in Information Systems
(IS). It reformulates the historical goal of automating IS building
but emphasizing that the Conceptual Schema (CS) should be the center
of the development. CSCD requires explicit, complete, executable and
correct CSs. In this context, testing becomes critical in the conceptual
modeling activity. Test-Driven Conceptual Modeling (TDCM) is proposed
as a new development method to obtain a correct and complete CS.
TDCM applies to conceptual modeling the essential ideas of Test-Driven
Development(TDD), an emerging test- rst eXtreme Programming (XP)
method. Our research proposal pretends to contribute to the IS research
community by developing the TDCM method and a tool to put it into
practice.